Contents Editorial 93 Anna Wierzbicka: Preface: Bilingual Lives, Bilingual Experience 94 Kanavillil Rajagopalan: Emotion and Language Politics: The Brazilian Case 105 Alexia Panayiotou: Switching Codes, Switching Code: Bilinguals’ Emotional Responses in English and Greek 124 Mary Besemeres: Different Languages, Different Emotions? Perspectives from Autobiographical Literature 140 Celeste Kinginger: Bilingualism and Emotion in the Autobiographical Works of Nancy Huston 159 Aneta Pavlenko: ‘Stop Doing That, la Komu Skazala!’: Language Choice and Emotions in Parent–Child Communication 179 Jean-Marc Dewaele: The Emotional Force of Swearwords and Taboo Words in the Speech of Multilinguals 204 Catherine L. Harris: Bilingual Speakers in the Lab: Psychophysiological Measures of Emotional Reactivity 223 Jeanette Altarriba and Tina M. Canary: The Influence of Emotional Arousal on Affective Priming in Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers 248 Robert W. Schrauf and Julia Sanchez: The Preponderance of Negative Emotion Words in the Emotion Lexicon: A Cross-generational and Cross-linguistic Study 266 JMMD